Reporting the End of the World

Last evening upon my return home, I found on my doorstep a flyer claiming irrefutable Biblical proof that the world will end this coming May 21. Seems like a good occasion to recall how different newspapers will report the end of the world:

I've heard several variations over the years, but never knew the actual origin. A correspondent fills us in by email:

How times change! That joke, by Calvin Trillin, originally poked fun at the New York Post, which was, at the time, long before the Murdoch days, considered to be a liberal rag. The punchline shows how long ago that was: